Gendered Cyborg A Reader

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Description: This work explores the relationship between representation, technoscience and gender, through the metaphor of the cyborg. The articles consider how the cyborg has been used in cultural representation from reproductive technology to sci-fi.

This work explores the relationship between representation, technoscience and gender, through the metaphor of the cyborg. The articles consider how the cyborg has been used in cultural representation from reproductive technology to sci-fi.

List of figures

List of acknowledgements

Introduction

Representing gender in technoscience

Introduction to Part One

Taxonomy for Human Beings

Race and Gender: the Role of Analogy in Science

A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s

Envisioning Cyborg Bodies: Notes from Current Research

Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science

Alien m/others: representing the feminine in science fiction film

Introduction to Part Two

Monstrous Mothers: Medusa, Grendel, and Now Alien

Technophilia: Technology, Representation, and the Feminine

Alien and the Monstrous-Feminine

Postfuturism

Reading Cyborgs Writing Feminism

Representing reproduction: reproducing representation

Introduction to Part Three

Foetal Images: the Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction

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